International Organizations and Democratization: A Case Study of Afghanistan

Subject Areas : International Relations

Arezou Ravansetan ¹ , Nozar Shafiee ² , Hossain Daheshiar ³ , Rahmat Hajiminieh ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Student in International Relations, Faculty of Human Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran , Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
3 - Professor of International Relations, Faculty member of Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor of International Relations, Communication and human science, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-05-08 Accepted : 2021-12-29 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: democracy, United Nations, International organizations, Democratization, Anti-authoritarianism,

Abstract :

AbstractIn democratization approach, the root of war and insecurity in the international system is the lack of democracy. Therefore, democratization of the governments has changed to an important procedure in the cold postwar world. This important issue is in progress sometimes in the form of process, and sometimes in the form of project, by the international organizations that have legitimation and universal acceptance. The objective of this research is to analyze the role of the international organizations on democratization of the governments that are in non-democratic status. Hence, by focusing on the role of the UN as one of the most effective public international organizations, this question is raised that what is the role of the international organizations, especially UN, in democratization of the governments? Hypothesis of the research, which is conducted in descriptive- analytical method, is that “the UN plays an active role through its major institutions such as Security Council, general meeting and secretary-general by implementing and executing the legal and political (or diplomatic) actions and institutionalizing for accelerating anti-authoritarianism and fixing democracy in the non-democratic countries”. Findings of the paper show that the high levels of independence and legitimation of the international organizations such as UN have made the democratization of the non-democratic governments possible. The case of Afghanistan will be reviewed for clarifying this interaction.